Choosing Realities

For too much of today

I sat in the reality

our culture proferred

via the dominant media.

My head spun

heachache

headstrung

headsunk

headless

I need that other place

that other space

the other reality

that our society does not promote

some call it a retreat

some say it's evasion

avoidance

or, gentler, an escape,

time out

but no

there is dominant ambience

and there is that other place

where the inner world grows

I choose that place

Should have chosen it earlier today

but that's now gone

so now I try to gently undo the junk collated

through the day

and from there

accumulate some tenderness and quiet nurturing

to be kind to myself for at least some of my precious day